Patrick Tiffany Mclaughlin

US Patent:

20200257518, Aug 13, 2020

Filed:

Apr 24, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/858504

Inventors:

- Santa Clara CA, US
James R. HEARN - Hillsboro OR, US
Scott P. DUBAL - Oregon City OR, US
Jeffery OLIVER - Happy Valley OR, US
Patrick J. McLAUGHLIN - Wilsonville OR, US
Daniel K. OSAWA - Tigard OR, US
Kelly J. COUCH - Beaverton OR, US
Maciej PLUCINSKI - Hillsboro OR, US

International Classification:

G06F 8/65
G06F 21/57

Abstract:

Examples described herein relate to a network interface receiving a firmware update from one or more packets. In some examples, the one or more packets indicate a start of a firmware update. In some examples, the network interface can also perform authenticating the start of firmware update indication and based on authentication of the firmware update, permit a firmware update of a device. In some examples, the device is one or more of: Board Management Controller (BMC), central processing unit (CPU), network interface, Ethernet controller, storage controller, memory controller, display engine, graphics processing unit (GPU), accelerator device, or peripheral device. In some examples, an end of firmware update indicator is received in the one or more packets. In some examples, communications are maintained through a port during a firmware change.